People don't want to trade ... They don't even want to hear ideas. They just want to know their books are hedged. If an event -- God forbid -- happened, the market could swing pretty hard. But this uncertainty doesn't create more activity; it (depresses) activity because no one wants to do anything. Things kind of grind to a virtual halt.

James Caron

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Because there are so many ideas brought forth, you could probably have two people sitting side-by-side that see it differently - you can have validity in different points of view.

— James Bowen

I get my ideas from everywhere -- preschools, Web sites and craft books.

— Denise Inman

good outlet for the ideas I don't use in books.

— Kathy Reichs

Paperbacks weren't considered real books in the book trade. Up till then it was just murder mysteries, potboilers, 25-cent pocket books sold in newsstands. When the New York publishers started publishing quality paperbacks, there was no place to buy them.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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What we're doing as a trade publisher is allowing users to experience new books whenever they want, the same way that they might not have the time to listen to a radio show the day it's broadcast, but will listen to it later.

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